Hardware Systems Engineer: Firmware & Fleet Automation

Cloudflare; Broughton in Furness; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to help shape infrastructure choices that affect a large portion of the Internet. You will work with the Hardware Engineering and Sourcing teams to troubleshoot and maintain Cloudflare’s fleet of storage and compute servers, across a global footprint.

The role emphasizes collaboration with vendors, automation, and scalable fleet operations, with opportunities to influence hardware strategy and improve reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Desire to learn about the Cloudflare hardware used by 20% of all web sites.
• Desire to learn how a diverse server fleet is managed at scale.
• Desire to learn the tools Cloudflare uses to maintain and monitor our hardware.
• Knowledge of bash and python and basic Linux task automation.
• Knowledge of x86 server hardware including motherboards, CPUs, memory, storage and firmware updates. Knowledge of other platforms such as arm is a bonus.
• Knowledge of configuration management principals, in particular we use salt to manage our fleet.
• Knowledge of Redfish, IPMI and server remote management protocols.
• Knowledge of running production mission critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with software teams to validate bug fixes and assess performance of new firmware revisions.
• Validate and deploy firmware updates to the fleet, monitoring the progress of the rollout for compliance and reliability.
• Work with server and component vendors to obtain, debug, and maintain the latest updates.
• Work with our Site Reliability Engineering teams to triage hardware problem reports.
• Support our Data Centre Engineering teams in resolving hardware issues.
• Develop and maintain automation tools to update firmware on servers and components in Cloudflare’s fleet.
• Communicate your results and updates through blog posts, internal talks, and tickets.

Skills

Bash

Python

Linux scripting

Firmware updates

Server troubleshooting

SRE collaboration

Debugging hardware faults

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

Salt

Redfish

IPMI

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Bitbucket

TeamCity

Jira

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to help shape infrastructure choices that affect a large portion of the Internet. You will work with the Hardware Engineering and Sourcing teams to troubleshoot and maintain Cloudflare’s fleet of storage and compute servers, across a global footprint.

The role emphasizes collaboration with vendors, automation, and scalable fleet operations, with opportunities to influence hardware strategy and improve reliability at scale.